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DETROIT PIANO DEALERS EXHIBITING AT STATE FAIR
Many Displays of Musical Instruments Being Featured at Fair Which Opened This Week-
Tschirhart Co. Reorganized—Grinnell Bros. Break All Records With Steinway Pianos
DETROIT, MICH., September
5.—Wherever
The
Review correspondent called this week he
found people out—out to the Michigan State
fair grounds attending to their displays at the
fair which opened on Labor Day and stays
with us for ten days. Rvery dealer exhibiting
is confident of more than clearing expenses,
and if business proves better than last year, it
will mean a handsome profit. In this connec-
tion we also might say that excepting the
motor car industry, no other line of trade is
represented with a greater number of exhibits
than the piano trade, which certainly proves that
the piano industry is far from being on the
wane.
Grinnell Bros, at the fair have two specials
—an upright piano at $198 and a player-piano
at $425, including thirty-eight rolls of 25-cent
music at customer's choice, bench and drape.
Both specials will be on exhibition and on sale
at the main store, 243-247 Woodward avenue,
and at the fair grounds.
The J. L. Hudson Co. during the fair will
feature a Brinkerhoff player-piano at $395, ami
also upright pianos in oak and mahogany at
$155.
Exhibits of these instruments will also
be made at the store, 188 Woodward avenue.
The Hudson Co. will also have on exhibit at
the fair all regular lines of pianos, player-
pianos, talking machines and music rolls.
Other exhibitors at the State fair are Bush &
Lane Piano Co., Detroit Piano Co., Clough &
Warren Piano Co., and Detroit Music Co.
The J. L-. Hudson thirty-fifth anniversary sale
starts on September 11 and runs for five days.
Henry Schumann-Heink, a son of Madame
Schumann-Heink, and associated with the
player-piano department of Grinnell Bros., is
suing a drug company for $500, alleging assault.
It seems that Mr. Schumann-Heink and wife
went into a drug store last April for a drink of
soda water. The clerk spilled some on the
counter at which they were seated, and Mr.
Are they trying to sell
a low-priced piano simply
on a quality that people
can't see, and at a price
that all your competitors
can easily match?
Or are you going to
give them the opportu-
nity to sell
The
at $275 ?
Henry F. Miller Co. Has Old Collard & Col-
lard Instrument on Exhibition
PORTLAND, ME., September 5.—In the window of
the new Henry F. Miller piano store on Forest
avenue, a beautifully antique piano is being
shown. It is one of the very earliest upright
models and was made by Collard & Collard
many years ago in London, England—and re-
paired later by Hime & Son of Liverpool. It
came from Baftle, England, a long time ago,
during the past century, and the Miller Piano
Co. have finally taken it in trade from Mrs.
Hattie Berry of this city.
The Miller Co. have placed the instrument
in their window to attract attention to their
special Dollar Day features which are cleverly
described on v!rr%us cards. It will be a source
of interest to many hundreds of people who
realize its value and the company will prob-
ably continue it as a window display for a few
days at least.
HERBERT
"Square-Cut"
Music Rolls
We have specialized
in classical rolls and
you can rely upon
the sellability of
H e r b e r t Music.
NEW HEARING INJVEGMAN MATTER
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Schumann-Heink asked him to clean it up.
An altercation followed.
The Tschirhart-McCarron Music Co., Detroit,
which incorporated to the amount fo $2,000,
is the reorganized name of the Tschirhart
Music House, which is now doubling the size
of its store on North Woodward. The com-
pany handles pianos, players, Columbia Grafo-
nolas, and sheet music. The corporation com-
prises Frank Tschirhart, May McCarron and
Frank J. McCann.
Grinnell Bros, report the biggest Steinway
business in their history for the last week in
August. This was due to the advance notice
that prices would increase September 1. It
brought in a lot of sales that were pending.
People were glad to take advantage of the
savings offered them.
A specially designed and specially con-
structed Krakauer grand piano is expected to
arrive in Detroit this week, it being a personal
gift from J. Henry Ling, proprietor of Ling's
Music House to the Sunday School of the Cen-
tral Methodist Church, of this city. It will
match the woodwork of the Sunday School audi-
torium.
A leading Detroit dealer in pianos and other
musical instruments, said to The Review corre-
spondent: "We are on the edge of perilous
times—dealers should certainly be careful and
watch their credits. We are turning down as
much business as we accept."
Three new piano salesmen have been added
by the J. L. Hudson piano store. They are
A. T. Craig, a successful "Angelus" salesman;
Forest Wilking, an old-time "Apollo" salesman,
and C. L. Buckley, formerly with the Peoples
Outfitting Co., and Grinnell Bros. This brings
the force of piano salesmen at Hudson's up
to fourteen.
Charles DeVine, manager of the Cincinnati
store of the Aeolian Co., was a Detroit visitor
this week. He is spending his vacation in and
around this vicinity.
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A piano of definite
quality and .beauty—over
which any good piano
salesman can honestly
enthuse—
But of which, in ad-
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establishes the confidence
of the customer and
helps the salesman to
close the sale.
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territory, terms, etc.
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Referee Seeks to Turn Over Securities to Cer- §}
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Irvirlg Bacon, referee in bankruptcy, has noti-
fied the creditors of the Wegman Piano Co.,
bankrupt, that a meeting will be held at his
office in Auburn, N. Y., on September 14, on
a petition to transfer to certain creditors cer-
tain securities held by them at an agreed valua-
tion, such securities to be applied to the claims
held by those creditors against the estate. In
a notice issued by the trustee it is stated that
securities having a present face value of $82,-
005.07 will be turned over at an agreed value
of $17,524.32.
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